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Silly sitting sisters
We have two chickens, an Asian Black and a California White, that went broody. As we have no roo they stole the eggs from under a duck who had gone broody. She quick sitting with them after about a week and now the twosome share the duties. We are approaching hatching day so I have been keeping... -
Broody duck & cluck
We have a chicken hen who went broody about 8 weeks ago and would not be deterred. As we have no roosters all of the chicken eggs were duds. So after reading that chickens can hatch ducklings, we gave her 3 duck eggs to sit on with a damp paper towel for moisture needs. She successfully hatched... -
Ducky Dilema
Hi and Help! we have 2 duck hens that that hatched 13 ducklings out of 22 eggs Thursday into Saturday morning. So today I went to clean out the coop nest area since they girls had the babies out play in the run. I noticed two of the eggs had pip holes in them. I assumed the babies had died since... -
1st time ducks setting
Our 2 ducks are setting on 22 eggs. They started to set roughly on around April 7 to 10. Here we are at May 12th and still no evidence of hatching. Are the girls now on duds? we have not candled in about a week but I did see one rock a couple of days ago. So do we let them have a few more days... -
just joined
Hi all. We are now 4 weeks into our chicken family and have been enjoying the articles here at BYC. We live in county near Goddard Ks, where weather can see multiple extremes. Our little flock of 10 has 3 Buff Orpingtons, one of whom we think is a rooster, 3 Golden Comets and 4 Back Asians. All...- JetDoc750
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